Jay Dratler, Jr. is the Goodyear Professor of Intellectual Property at The University of Akron School of Law. He is the principal author of a two-volume treatise, Intellectual Property Law: Commercial, Creative, and Industrial Property (1991), the sole author of another two-volume treatise, Licensing of Intellectual Property (1994), and the principal author of a one-volume treatise, Cyberlaw: Intellectual Property in the Digital Millennium (2000). Each treatise is updated twice per year. Professor Dratler teaches Copyright, Licensing, Cyberlaw, Trade Secrets, Computer Law and Introduction to Intellectual Property. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1998, Professor Dratler’s academic career included visiting professorships at the University of New Mexico School of Law and Boalt Law School at the University of California (Berkeley) and a Fulbright Fellowship at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He also served as a Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii and has lectured internationally in Australia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Russia. Professor Dratler is admitted to practice before the California and Ohio state bars, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California and the District of Hawaii. His professional memberships include the America Law Institute and the advisory board to the Intellectual Property Strategist. Professor Dratler received an A.B. degree from the University of California (Berkeley), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of California (San Diego), and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Articles
eBay's Practical Effect: Two Differing Visions, Akron Intellectual Property Journal (2008)
This short paper examines the likely effect of the Court's three opinions on the actual...
Common-Sense (Federal) Common Law Adrift in a Statutory Sea, or Why Grokster was a Unanimous Decision, Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal (2006)
The very day the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Grokster, commentators on the Lehrer...
Alice in Wonderland Meets the U.S. Patent System, Akron Law Review (2005)
Among the joys of being a professor, as distinguished from practicing law, are the leisure...
Does Lord Darcy Yet Live? The Case against Software and Business- Method Patents, Santa Clara Law Review (2003)
This article takes a different approach. As the juxtaposition of rule and exception in the...
Microsoft as an Antitrust Target: IBM in Software?, Southwestern University Law Review (1996)
Microsoft Corporation, the target of many an antitrust arrow, has its fingers in new technologies....
Books
Intellectual Property Law: Commercial, Creative, and Industrial Property (1991)
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Unpublished Papers
Bush v. Boumediene: The Court is Back (2008)
This short article is a follow-up to a piece I wrote two years ago on...